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@uitrit taire @anni @frn WILLIAM H. RODGERS, OF BROOKLYN, l).,) N EW YORK. Letters Patent No. 61,261, dated January 15, 1867.

MACHINE FORGOVERING WIRBYWITH lFINE WIRE.V

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CON CERN Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. RODGERS, of Brooklyn, D.,) in the county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented, made, andapplied to use, a certain new and useful Improvement in Machinery for Covering Skirt-Wire, rite.; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the said invention, reference 'being had to the annexed drawing, making part of this specification', wherein- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my said machine; and

Figure 2 is a plan of the same below the line xx.

Similar marksfef reference denote the same parts.

Steel wire for skirts has heretofore been covered with a winding of fine wire by a machine, in which a revolving-head carrying small spools hasA been employed, and the wire has passed up and been covered at the end of a hollow spindle around 'which said head, has revolved. It has been found necessary to re-spool Ythe wire upon small spools or else the vibration of the machine prevents the wire being put upon the skirt-wire evenly, and even after this has been done, the covering wire is not laid on with uniformity; besides which there is considerable loss both of time and wire resulting from the re-spooling. My inventionovercomes all these objections, .and consists in an independent head for the wire, separate from but placed centrally in line withthe axis of a revolving-head carrying large spools or bobbins of the fine wire. By these means I avoid the necessityrof re-spooling the ne coveringr wire, and consequently the loss of time and wire in that operation, and the covering is laid on much more uniformily that it can be done by the machinery heretofore employed, and I ain able to employ the ordinary spools as they come from the manufactory containing a large amount of wire, so as to last very much longer than thesmall spools heretofore employed. I do not require friction applied to the spools as heretofore, as the tension is produced by passing the fine wire around grooved rollers.

In the drawing, a represents ay standard, carrying a hollow axis, b,'sl1own by dott-ed lines, around which is a. sleeve, c, carrying spindles, cZd, for the spools or bobbins, e e; andff are arms, at the ends of which are grooved rollers, gg; Zi is a driving pulley, around b, that is rotated by competent power, and thrown into or out of gear by the clutch formed by a sleeve around the axis b, Vupon which are pins that run up the inclincs 7e, as

`the sleeve is turned by the lever z', so as to force the pulley h against the end of the sleeve c with the power necessary for driving said sleeve and spools around withthe required speed by the friction between the surfaces. A shoulder upon the tube Z2 sustains the sleeve when the friction-pulley t is not pressed against its lower end. A stationary head, Z, is provided, at the end of which is a small cap, o, through which is `a hole of the size and shape of the wire, and the -head Z is sustained rigidly by any suitable framework, so that it will not be vibrated by the rotation of the sleeve and spools. 'Ihe head Z is located on the line of a prolongation of .the axis of the revolving head c. The wire passes from the spools e e, around the grooved pulleys gg, once or twice, so as to give friction and tension to said covering wire, and then said covering wire passes to the skirt spring or wire, at the point where it passes out of the head Z, so that a perfect and uniform covering of tine wire is wound Varound the skirt-wire, by the revolution of the head and itsspool of wire, the skirt-wire being drawn at a regular speed through the fixed head Zand hollow axis b. The `grooved pulleys m are prevented from turning tooeasily by friction springs applied to their sides; thereby the tension of the covering wire is regulated with accuracy. This invention, although especially adapted vto the covering of Hat steel skirt-wire, may be employed in covering'any-other character of wire with awinding of fine wire. By myinvention the wire and its covering are kept entirely away from those'portions of the apparatus that require oiling, hence I avoid the soiling and injuring of the wire by oil that often occur in other machines.

- What I claim, and desire to secure by LcttersPatent,ois- Y The hollow fixed head Z, separate from ther hollow axisb, in combination with the revolving head carrying the spools or bobbins Aof fine wire, and revolved around the axis b, as and for the purposes set forth.

I also claim the grooved rollers g, in combination with the revolving head and spools, aroundwhich rollers g the tine covering wire is wound to give the required tension from the friction, as set forth.-

Dated this 10th day of August, 1866.

WM. H. RODGERS. Witnesses:

LEMUEL W. SERRELL, Guns. H. SMITH. 

